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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

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Henderson, J. Vernon, Storeygard, Adam, Weil, David N·2012·American Economic Review

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We develop a statistical framework to use satellite data on night lights to augment official income growth measures. For countries with poor national income accounts, the optimal estimate of growth is a composite with roughly equal weights on conventionally measured growth and growth predicted from lights. Our estimates differ from official data by up to three percentage points annually. Using lights, empirical analyses of growth need no longer use countries as the unit of analysis; we can measure growth for sub- and supranational regions. We show, for example, that coastal areas in sub-Saharan Africa are growing slower than the hinterland. (JEL E01, E23, O11, 047, 057)

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Authors: Henderson, J. V., Storeygard, A., & Weil, D. N.
Affiliations: National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
ORCID: Henderson, J. Vernon
Storeygard, Adam
Weil, David N
Venue: American Economic Review
Publisher: American Economic Association
Published: 2012-04-01
Volume: 102
Issue: 2
Pages: 994-1028
ISSN: 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.2.994
PMC: PMC4108272
OpenAlex: W3125333792
Cited by: 2,596
References: 22
Citations by year: 2026: 268 · 2025: 246 · 2024: 225 · 2023: 252 · 2022: 295 · 2021: 262 · 2020: 216 · 2019: 222 · 2018: 161 · 2017: 114 · 2016: 102 · 2015: 89 · 2014: 71 · 2013: 37 · 2012: 15
FWCI: 56.17
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Locations: American Economic Review (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (acceptedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD041020, T32HD007338)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Impact of Light on Environment and Health
Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Growth and Productivity
Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Growth and Development
Keywords: economic growth measurement, nighttime lights, satellite data, GDP growth, income growth, national accounts, measurement error, regional economic growth, sub-Saharan Africa, malaria, primate city, coastal areas

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